Friday, July 27, 2012

Bragging Rights

Remember the quilts I took to the county fair on Monday—well today is the first day I’ve been back out to the fairgrounds to see all the quilts. I won both a purple champion ribbon and a blue first place ribbon on my two quilts!!!! I am thrilled to say the least!!

Here are some of the other gorgeous quilts displayed at the fair:

This belongs to Bette, one of my quilt retreat buddies.

This one belongs to Bonnie—the woman who spearheads all the fine art displays at the fair including quilting.

This one’s for you Paulette, all wool, just gorgeous, made by one of our quilt shop workers, Betsy.

And Barb’s patriotic quilt which I quilted for her.

This afternoon Bonnie had arranged a demonstration—how to make a ten minute table runner—we timed our teacher and by george, it did only take 10 minutes and so cute with many variations. I then demonstrated a little make and take—fabric flowers with button centers. It was enjoyable and everyone got to take home their finished product.

As we were leaving the fair we ran into Geoff, Nancy and Shine the puppy. Along came Denny and Ellen with Ned the puppy—those two dogs had so much fun!

A very, very good day in Montana!! It is raining as I write this—we are praying for lots of rain!!

Congratulations on your ribbons, Janna. Looks like there were lots of pretty quilts there. Congrats on the rain too. If only Nebr. could get a couple or three inches real slow all over the state it would lift spirits and help immensely with the wild fires in the North Central & Western portions of the state.

It's no wonder that you cleaned up at the County Fair! Your quilts are gorgeous!! The Stocking Quilt is on my 'TO-DO List'...bought the book a couple of years ago!! LOVE it! And yes, I agree...the wool quilt is stunning!! AND your quilting is wonderful too!! I think you should give the RV Blog to hubby and start your own Quilting Blog...just sayin'! :o)Have a great weekend!!P

Your quilts are beautiful and Congrats on the ribbons. I know about the 10 minute runners and have made some but about those fabric flowers? You should do a picture post tutorial for us.:)Again Congrats. Happy week-end!

About Me

Mike is a retired rancher/construction company owner. Janna is a retired registered nurse. We met almost 20 years ago and in spite of sounding corny, it was love at first sight. We have been truly blessed in our lives together.
We enjoy being outdoors with our little Schnauzer, Emmi.
Janna loves to quilt, cook, and read. Mike builds furniture, researches "stuff" on the computer and is a Sudoku pro. He is also the chief mechanic for all our older stuff such as the 1996 Country Coach motor home we now travel in! We love retirement!